For more details, click here to view the release notes for Adobe Flash Player 10

Install Adobe Flash Player 10

The procedure here should work on all openSUSE versions and definitely on openSUSE 10.3/11.0/11.1 beta. To install Adobe Flashplayer 10, it is important that you uninstall any previous versions of flashplayer installed on your openSUSE.

Ensure you choose to download the “tar.gz” version. The reason for this being that the installer should be run as the user. In other words, do not run the installer as Root.

Unzip & Untar Flashplayer 10

Once downloaded, unzip, untar the downloaded file.

saibaba@opensuse:~> tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

Install Adobe Flash Player 10

Close any browser opened and change directory to the extracted folder and run the installer. Press ENTER when prompted to continue the installation. Enter the default installation directory to be the .mozilla directory in your user profile (for example, /home/sai/.mozilla). This should be choosen by default. If so, accept defaults.

You are running the Adobe Flash Player installer as a non-root user.
Adobe Flash Player 10 will be installed in your home directory.

Support is available at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/

To install Adobe Flash Player 10 now, press ENTER.

To cancel the installation at any time, press Control-C.

NOTE: Please exit any browsers you may have running.

Press ENTER to continue…

———– Install Action Summary ———–

Adobe Flash Player 10 will be installed in the following directory:

Mozilla installation directory = /home/saibaba/.mozilla

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y

NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the
components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.

Installation complete.

Perform another installation? (y/n): n

This should install Adobe Flash Player in your openSUSE.

To confirm successful installation launch your Firefox browser and in the address bar type “about:plugins” and press enter. This show the installed plugins of which one should be your newly installed Adobe Flashplayer 10. Even more a big evidence would be to open a flash video website like www.youtube.com and you should be able to view the videos.

i have followed the same instructions. i am not about to install 10 version.. in the plugin it is still showing flash plyer 7 version. i am able to watch youtube but when ever i open expertvillage.com i am unable to watch the video

so, i am a total linux noob, how do i not do it as root? is root the default account i made when installing
(11.1) when i try to unzip/untar it, i get an error:
oren@linux-sst0:~> tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz
tar: install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
oren@linux-sst0:~>

You have to get 64bit version of library from Adobe homesite (dont remember location, you can google it). Its prerelease version, not available from default download place, but its definitely somewhere there.

Hi
Since flash player 9 sound rendering is no longer supported. For all those seeking to Even more a big evidence would be to open a flash video website like http://www.youtube.com and you should be able to view the videos. will be treated with some choppy video and silece. This new feature of excellent stereo silence will surely enhance your youtube experience

i have a problem
i can download the flash player but after that i unzip and untar it with the target file path tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz after that i open the downloaded file there stands “open with” what do i have to do now???
please answer me!!

@Ray: Actually the tar -zxvf install_… is not a target file path, it’s a command with the file path to be run in a console, terminal, or whatever you call it. It’s just for extracting the content. If you are (sorry) new to Linux, you can just extract using the GUI application like Ark, XArchiver, etc. or anything you can do to extract it.

I’ve downloaded the install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz file from the flash player site, untar ed the file onto the desktop but I just got one libflashplayer.so file. I didn’t got any directory, I moved this file into the /usr/lib/browser-plugins as stated in the above posts, but still I got no flash player, the browser is still asking for download plugins. Please help me out with this.

Iam using openSuse linux 11.0
Any help will be highly appreciated,
thanks in advance.

If you use gnome and have your own desktop starter created to start firefox, it may not be working. Best to start firefox from computer->firefox or drag & drop the firefox-Item from there to your desktop to create a starter automatically.
If it is still not working you may have to uninstall all 32-bit flash player installations. Than it should be working.

iam really new to all this so excuse me if i am askin silly questions, i open the tar file and all i get is libflashplayer.so not any folder nor any installer, how should i get the folder? cause as i understand, i should get a folder with two files inside (libflashplayer.so and installer) i tried extracting with the command and Ark but they both give me one single file not any folder, and i do not understand how can i get it to work, iam running on KDE.

and i am not sure what running (or not running) on root means, if on root means typing commands in Terminal – Super User Mode, then iam not typing commands in super user mode either.

also i tried copying the file but it says access denied. i changed permissions of the folder but no luck.

I am new to Linux and OpenSUSE11.1 is the first version I have ever installed. Already I am having difficulties finding solutions for some problems. Please can you expand on the forum a bit or email me.

[…] The link below states this method should be successful on 10.3. This is the method I tried first on Opensuse 11.2 and it did not work. Could try it on 10.3: http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/i…pensuse-linux/ […]

[…] you use the instructions on this page or a similar one to try to install flashplayer: http://www.susegeek.com/multimedia/i…pensuse-linux/ It's supposed to work on 10.3. I tried it on Opensuse 11.2 and it didn't work although I had used […]

I am also using 10.3 have the libflashplayer.so setting on my desktop. The hyper link posted for 10.3 no longer works. I have this problem listed on a couple of forums. Even downloaded a version that has installer. Still the same results. Has anybody found a way to work with the .so file?

The command “tar -zxvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz” does *not* result in a directory,
it is simply a .so file. So I don’t see how the “cd install_flash_player_10_linux”
command could ever work. So these instructions are useless.

As Jamesu mentioned, the tar.gz file only contains libflashplayer.so and there is not even a readme.txt included so I don’t really know what to do with this file. I already spent 2 evenings searching everywhere I could and nothing worked to get sound out of Firefox and Chrome when playing videos. I have the the Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102 plugin installed in Firefox.

Following on from my previous message it would appear that I had created an empty document called flashplayer-installer. I have deleted this document and now have a usrs folder and a file called libflashplayer.so. I am in a directory called #/install_flashplay_10_linux I then type ./flashplayer-installer but get the message no such file or directory